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Multi-brand hotel operator CHI Hotels & Resorts has announced that starting October 1, it will be operating its second hotel in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt with the opening of The Ramada Plaza - Naama Bay - Sharm El Sheikh.

CHI signed a 15-year technical services and management agreement with the owning El Salam Company for Tourism Development, led by its chairman Salim Hamza El Nasharty, for the operation of the converted and partly refurbished 254 bedroom hotel.

Previously known as the Royal Plaza Hotel since its opening in 2004, the Ramada Plaza - Naama Bay - Sharm El Sheikh is located on a tract of land measuring some 11,000 square metres, just three minutes from the town centre and 300 metres from the seafront promenade. It also has its own private beach 500 metres away at Sharm El Maya.

Facilities at the refurbished hotel include a restaurant, piano bar, two swimming pools, a rooftop Spa and gymnasium, pool and beach bars, a spacious meeting room, several retail shops, 24-hour room service and an in-house laundry. Most bedrooms have a balcony and are equipped with satellite TV, minibar, air conditioning, direct-dial phones and in-room safes. Bathrooms feature shower/tub combinations and hair dryers.

"This is a great step forward for us in the region," said Chi's chief executive officer and managing director Tony Potter. "It is our second hotel management agreement in Egypt within the space of one year and the first time we're bringing the Ramada Plaza brand into Naama Bay in Sharm. Our other hotel under management in the region, the Tiran Island Hotel, has performed well over the past year and this has encouraged us to further explore other opportunities in this vastly popular country of Egypt. We now look forward to the opening of our third CHI management property there, the luxurious Corinthia Resort Hotel, which together with the Tiran Island Hotel and Residences, will complete the upscale Corinthia Beach Resort in Montazah, Sharm El Sheikh, offering our guests an unparalleled holiday experience."

The Tiran Island Hotel and Residences and the Corinthia Resort Hotel are owned by Cyrene Tourism Investment Corporation of Egypt, headed by its owning chairman and CEO H Mansouri.

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